The Fashion Photography Archive contains over 600,000 catwalk, backstage and street style images digitized for the first time, which means that you will not find these anywhere else online! The full Archive launches in 2016, but we’re giving you lucky blog readers a sneak peek. […]

We are having SO MUCH FUN in the office today. A meeting about supplementary materials turned into a discussion about a fashion competition for students in the form of a creative brief, which turned into a pattern cutting class using the image files from our new book Pattern Cutting: The Architecture of Fashion…

For our latest graduate profile, we spoke to Ally Carter about some of her most successful student projects – several of which feature in Design Research, the latest title in our Basics Graphic Design series.

Are you fascinated by buildings and structures and the way in which people interact with spaces? Do you love sketching and observing the world around you? Maybe you really enjoy creating 3D models and objects? If so, the life of an architect could be for you. If you want to find out more about the fundamental principles of architecture, AVA’s second edition of The Fundamentals of Architectureis the perfect place to start. Read on to find out more about this title and to see a sneak preview of some spreads!

Jung Ha-Brookshire, Associate Professor of Textile and Apparel Management at the University of Missouri was recently awarded the 2017 Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, a highly esteemed award for instructors. Ha-Brookshire’s book, Global Sourcing in the Textile and Apparel Industry, dives into the global nature of the textile industry. Today, over 95% of textile and […]

Dr. Valerie Steele is Chief Curator and Editor-in-Chief of the Fashion Photography Archive. She is an internationally renowned scholar and Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Watch her introduce the Fashion Photography Archive and discuss the significance of the era covering the 1970s through 2000 […]

I began writing Sustainable Graphic Design: Principles and Practice as a way to develop how to teach sustainable design. It is really a case study of that process, but far less messy. I think you’ll find it is written to both you, the instructor, and your students. I wanted to write something that would speak […]